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I Need A Woman

I'm the guy on the bass in the background. This was taken around 1972 when I was briefly part of a small band performing "Take Five" in my college talent contest, Tiger Tangles. The following was written around that time as well:

 

I Need A Woman

Lyrics by Michael Vance

Written August 4th, 1971

 

Once, you know, I trust, I caught:

“clouds homogenize into dust.

Armored in pieces of tree sperm

ants are partial to squashed worm.

But…

Now, it’s true, quite laced with wine,

people evaporate into swine

cities are splotches of human spit

man is destroyed by human wit.

 

Ah, I need a woman to, when I’m down,

knock me in the head

to

pull me ‘round

slap me into bed

and kiss away the searing city sidewalks

 

“The CPA was sick today; you’ll have to tomorrow—sir?

“Yes, we’ve heard the news as well, it multiplies my sorrow.

“Well?”

 

Then, you see, I saw, quite so

summer transfigured into snow

pears in patches of speary lawn

wasps made holy in sticky yawns

But…

 

“The CPA was sick today; you’ll have to tomorrow—sir?

“Yes, we’ve heard the news as well, It multiplies my sorrow.

“Well?”

 

Ah, I need a woman to, when I’m down,

knock me in the head

to

pull me ‘round

slap me into bed

and kiss away the searing city sidewalks

 

“The CPA was sick today; you’ll have to tomorrow—sir?

“Yes, we’ve heard the news as well, it multiplies my sorrow.

“Well?”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Uploaded on January 10, 2009